More from Fred Hoyle

  1. We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates o…
  2. Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
  3. A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. Wha…
  4. The creationist is a sham religious person who, curiously, has no true sense of religion. In the language of religion, it is the facts we o…
  5. I do not see any sense in continuing to skirmish on a battlefield where I can never hope to win. The Cambridge system is effectively design…
  6. It has often been said that, if the human species fails to make a go of it here on the Earth, some other species will take over the running…
  7. There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
  8. Hoyle: A star is basically a pretty simple object. Voice from Audience: You'd look pretty simple too, Fred, from a distance of ten parsecs.

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